Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held an election. On the whole, the U.S. people did not pay much attention to it. There was comparatively little talk about it; it raised few heated arguments. To all except a hardy band of diehards (who are now trumpeting their clairvoyance), it seemed that there was almost no point in going to the polls; the result was in the bag. The election would prove to the world that the world's greatest democracy could change leaders almost as easily as its motorists changed gears...
...felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million men in the U.S. who would make a better President than he was or ever would be. But that was not the point, he said. He, Harry Truman, was President...
...officials were as greatly concerned with "evils of poverty" breeding Communism as they were with the growing strength of Markos' armed bands. From a long-term point of view, they were right, of course. But they were and still are faced with an urgent short-term problem that must be met first. Until the rebellion is quelled there can be no effective reconstruction or economic rehabilitation...
...Hundred Gold Pounds. The story of George Magalios illustrates the point. George, who lived on the outskirts of Karditsa, was a big, handsome man, still dark-haired and active for his years. He had worked hard all his life, and from his savings bought a rare farm possession for Greece, a tractor-drawn combine. With it he had made enough money to educate his eldest son Anastasios, 22, and to build up respectable dowries for his four pretty daughters...
...foot of his bed (which now stands in his studio so that he can work propped up in it) was the focal point of Matisse's new labors: a working model of the chapel he is designing for a Dominican home for convalescent girls not far from his house in Vence...